Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women's sports program is clearly on the rise, after several seasons floundering around and lagging behind Princeton's powerhouses. While it may be too early to tell, it is not unrealistic to forecast that every women's squad at the University has at least an outside shot at the Ivy crown. That's not something that could have been said a few years ago, or even last year...
...battlefield tactician, Jimmy Carter last week jetted halfway round the world in a two-pronged attack on the problems of the American auto industry. First he summoned auto-company officials to a 7:05-a.m. meeting at Detroit's Metro Airport to announce a $1 billion Government assistance program. Then he hopped back aboard Air Force One and flew off to Tokyo for a memorial service honoring the late Japanese Prime Minister, Masayoshi Ohira. Though autos were not on the agenda of the President's 21-hour stay in Tokyo, his Japanese hosts could hardly overlook the well...
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...Japan would have given the Soviets all they could handle. But now gymnastic heart throb Kurt Thomas is an ABC sports commentator, and the wrestlers are mourning their lost opportunity. Says Don Krone, staff administrator for the A.A.U.'s wrestling division: "It may set our program back two or three years." With the U.S. men's basketball team at home, the gold medal should easily revert to the towering Soviets...
...faction and special-interest group, had something to cheer about, and perhaps to jeer about as well. Antiabortion campaigners were rewarded with a politically touchy decision that will nearly eliminate Medicaid-financed abortions. Civil rights activists were pleased by the court's approval of a federal public works program setting aside 10% of funds for minority-run businesses, but dismayed by a decision that perpetuated a white-dominated electoral system in Mobile, Ala. Free-speech champions got more than they had hoped for in a ruling guaranteeing open criminal trials, but were stunned earlier by the court...